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Untitled Pokemon movie announced for 2020
- Thread starter Atheerios
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It's a shame we never got any Alola movies, but I suppose the multi-part arcs in the anime did that job just fine.
That's good. Hoepfully it's actually back to tying with the anime instead of being its own thing. Seemed pointless.
the problem is the cartoon rarely referenced the movies in the first place. this is the closest we'll get to a secondary Pokemon series
That was what made the last two movies stand out, though?
The old movies also started getting bad and repetitive. Being forced to focus the entire story around a mythical Pokemon limited the movies.
It sure was! Beautiful setting, great story, cool characters, it had it all.
What annoys me about the old movies is the lack of scale they had. In spite of being about legendaries and mythicals they were also always centered in a single location, rather than being big events involving characters from the entire region. Considering how they couldn't really give development for Ash either, the lack of scale just made them feel pointless.
Now, they probably didn't want to do that because Ash needed to meet the gym leaders and other important characters in the tv series itself, but they could have used battle facility trainers or elite four members instead as a recurring secondary cast for the movies since those are hardly featured in the tv series. Using them could have made the events of the movie feel large in scale and actually having consequences for the entire region, while also tying together the movies of each series.
I liked it, and was very surprised to find its critical response so middling. The visual style is the best of the movies.
Nah, it was a lack of good writers. The Gen 4 movies were either great(Darkrai/Arceus) Or atleast really interesting(Giratina/Zoroark)
But then Gen 5 fucked up and needed two different versions of the same boring movie, then there's that Genesect movie thats just kinda there. Gen 6 had the one Xerneas/Yveltal movie that was also fairly generic, but then the Hoopa one was pretty good for variety and nobody watched it so they went straight to Reboots/Reimaginings instead.
Zeroera and Marshadow deserved their own unique focus and stories.
The Zeraora Arc in the show was really cool and could've been a film.
we'll it wouldn't have Origins' bad writing since it will be stretched out over multiple years, so sure
It was bad? tbh I just watched it once when was released so I don't remember much
People love to hate on it, but Origins was so much better than plenty of stuff from the actual show I've seen. But to be honest I'd rather watch a movie-length version of this B&W2 promo video. This kind of Pokémon movie would definitely pull me back in.
I don't consider it good because it relies too much on your nostalgia to fill in the many blanks
Quoted for truth. Don't sleep on this one, Era. It's a legitimately good movie. I can't really say that about any other Pokémon movie.
What's stopping them from having a spin off anime without Ash? They probably don't want to do it because "it will confuse the kiddies" but it is Pokemon multiverse right?
the less we talk about the multiverse the better. they can easily do other characters, they just choose not to
I don't think Arceus movie was that great. It was insulting the way they portrayed and treated it, and the whole plot was very silly. They could've created such amazing stories for Gen IV movies, if they only took the videogames as a reference.
The Victini movie(s) was boring, but the Keldeo one was slightly better (just horribly animated) and Genesect I really liked it, I don't know why, when all the Pokémon are fighting back the Genesect and their place is getting destroyed, I don't know why I almost felt like crying lol but that was me.
Diancie movie, was kinda entertaining until Xerneas and Yveltal finally meet and Xerneas defeats it with just one mean look, no beams, no explosions, no especial effects or something, it was like, whaaat? Hoopa was more interesting on paper, like the idea sounded really cool, but I didn't really like it visually, the place where the events happen just wasn't that pretty for such an epic event of having all these legendaries fighting :P.
Magearna and Volcanion, so boring I don't even remember what was it about.
Then Pikachu talks (I loved in this one that older Pokémon got featured, like Magmar, Arbok and Ho-Oh of course, also the cameo of Ash companions at the end)
The Power of Us was surprisingly good, but I feel like they tried to add too many stories for the characters, and obviously they can't get too deep in an hour and a half or whatever it lasts (I hate that from many movies in general) I think that it deserved its own sub-series of episodes instead. And I still don't like this alternative universe, like it could exist additionally, but the SM characteres deserved their movie too: 1 movie with the Tapu's, Solgaleo, Lunala, Necrozma and Ultra Beasts, another one for Marshadow and another one for Zeraora. I know Marshadow and Zeraora appear in movies, but they just felt like random additions.
This will probably be set in the Galar region, won't it? Alola didn't get any movies tho, so we'll see.
So there's a lot of back and forth about this and it's kind of confusing. Was a new movie teased or were people mislead by the charity thing? Because the thread title changed after people acknowledged the whole charity mix up but it still says there's a new movie despite there not really being anything about it...
Origins was neat when it came out because it had better animation than usual and followed the original game (until it didnt). Rewatching it now its largely just devoid of personality and the main anime series sometimes has great animation so Origins just feels like it aged poorly.
I mean, there's been a Pokemon movie every single year since the beginning of the brand. It would be news if there wasn't a Pokemon movie in 2020.
I disagree. Origins was great because the monsters didn't talk and the battles were visceral as you would expect from monsters actually fighting each other. It was basically how everyone wanted the anime to be. The story was heavily skimmed through so it really doesn't have rewatch value aside from showing someone who hasn't seen it how things should have been from the getgo in the anime. Oh, and the hero actually tries to catch a legendary instead of just looking at it and being like, oh cool... well, see you later.
Nah, the movie is its own continuity. None of the areas take place in known regions
Charmanders scream was very much a human voice actor. If you actually liked that scene for being "visceral" you got issues. If you're talking about physical contact and choreography then the tv show has had Origins beat for a long time now. Just look at clips from any semi-recent battle. Its both better animated, better choreographed and more visceral than Origins without the awkward face biting.
I remember most of the nice animation in Origins was mostly from the very last episode too.
Since the Mewtwo one was a remake, I hope this one returns to the I Choose You and Power of Us timeline, I really liked what they were trying to do.
The movie Satoshi is 100x better than the anime one.
I really hated he didn't used any Pokémon other than Pikachu, but it was great anyway